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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2002

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader criticizes law enforcement authorities for subjecting a Dakota teenager to "appalling conditions."

"Officials said she was housed where she was, because there was no place else to put her," writes the paper. "We think a better explanation is they didn't try hard enough."

Adelia Godfrey, a 17-year-old member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribe of South Dakota, was recently transferred to a youth facility after public outcry was raised. The paper says she never should have been kept alone in a basement jail cell called a "dungeon" because she is a known suicide risk.

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Sisseton girl needed humane treatment in jail (The Sioux Falls Argus Leader 3/12)

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